WTGR

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WTGR
City Union City, Ohio
Broadcast area Greenville and Darke County plus Winchester and Randolph County, Indiana area.
Frequency 97.5 MHz
BrandingTiger Country 97.5
Programming
Format Country music
Affiliations CNN Radio
Ownership
OwnerPositive Radio Group of Ohio
Sister stations WBOL (AM) 1030 kHz (defunct as of 1996)
History
Former call signsWFOW (1989-1990)
WBNN (1990-1991)
Call sign meaning W TiGeR
Technical information
Facility ID 15169
Class A
ERP 6,000 watts
HAAT 99.0 meters
Transmitter coordinates 40°11′32.00″N84°47′58.00″W / 40.1922222°N 84.7994444°W / 40.1922222; -84.7994444 Coordinates: 40°11′32.00″N84°47′58.00″W / 40.1922222°N 84.7994444°W / 40.1922222; -84.7994444
Links
Website Official website

WTGR (97.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Union City, Ohio, United States; the station is currently owned by Positive Radio Group of Ohio and features programming from CNN Radio. [1] [2]

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History

The station went on the air as WFOW on November 13, 1989, later changing its call letters to WBNN on March 30, 1990, and to the current WTGR on April 23, 1991. [3]

WTGR's transmitter is located in Union City just east of the Ohio-Indiana state line with its studios and offices located in a building which formerly housed a carpet business on Martin Street (State Route 571 East) in Greenville. Since the signal upgrade and retargeting of the former WDRK toward Dayton under later call letters WLSN, WBKI, WDJO-FM, WOLT, and, now, WRZX (FM)), WTGR remains as Darke County's only locally-originating, commercial radio station.

From 1993 to 1996, WTGR had an AM sister station, broadcasting daytime-only at 1030 kHz. With call letters WBOL, this sister station aired a combination of country music and farm news and information from Ed Johnson's ABN. In 1996, it was decided to return that AM license back to the FCC.

Call sign history

The "WTGR" call letters and "Tiger Radio" nickname had been used originally at Top-Forty-formatted AM stations in Charleston and Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the 1960s and, in the 1970s, at an AM station in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The current WTGR formerly employed a classic rock format as "97.5 The Tiger" before its switch to country, and the WBOL callsign is now used at an AM station in Bolivar, Tennessee.

WTGR was also the callsign for the University of Memphis Tigers' campus radio station (TGR for Tiger Radio) in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a low-power AM educational radio station with an effective radiated power of only 10 watts.

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References

  1. ↑ "WTGR Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ "WTGR Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  3. ↑ "WTGR Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
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